Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.